# autostrada
## English
### Etymology

Borrowed from Italian autostrada.

### Noun

autostrada (plural autostradas or autostrade)
* A motorway in Italy (and some other countries)
** 1977, America’s Highways, 1776-1976: A History of the Federal-Aid Program, page 117, column 1:Chief MacDonald also warned of another threat to free highways in the possible resurgence of the private toll road, for which the Italian autostrade were the current models.
** 1994, Nicole Franchini, Karen Brown, Karen Brown’s Italian Country Bed and Breakfasts, Travel Press, →ISBN, page 12:Tolls on Italian autostrade are quite steep, ranging from $15 to $20 for a three-hour stretch, but offering the fastest and most direct way to travel between cities.
** 2001, Yvonne D’Amico, Victor D’Amico, Sharing a Lifetime Passion for Europe, Writer’s Showcase, →ISBN, page 209:Italian autostrade are even more impressive than German autobahns because constructing a road in Italy is so much more challenging.
** 2018, D. Medina Lasansky, Hidden Histories: The Alternative Guide to Florence + Tuscany (Critical Tuscan Studies), didapress, →ISBN, page 116:According to a 1933 AAA guide to motoring abroad, Americans were reassured that unlike US highways, the Italian autostrade were not crowded.
** 2018, Mary K. Jensen, Rudy’s Rules for Travel: Life Lessons from Around the Globe, She Writes Press, →ISBN:now, exactly one year after a honeymoon night on the Edinburgh roof, our union is being tested again, this time on the Italian autostrade leading from Rome.

## Italian
### Etymology

From auto- +‎ strada.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /aw.toˈstra.da/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ada
* Hyphenation: au‧to‧strà‧da

### Noun

autostrada f (plural autostrade)
* motorway, expressway, freeway, highway, turnpike
    autostrada a pedaggio ― tollway, toll motorway/freeway

#### Derived terms

* Autostrada Adriatica
* Autostrada Alpe-Adria
* Autostrada Azzurra
* Autostrada dei Due Mare
* Autostrada dei Fiori
* Autostrada dei Laghi
* Autostrada dei Trafori
* Autostrada dei Vini
* Autostrada del Brennero
* Autostrada del Frejus
* Autostrada del Sole
* Autostrada della Cisa
* Autostrada della Val d'Astico
* Autostrada della Valle d'Aosta
* Autostrada di Alemagna
* Autostrada Milano-Mare
* Autostrada Serenissima
* autostradale

#### Descendants

* → Albanian: autostradë
* → Bulgarian: автостра́да (avtostráda), аутостра́да (autostráda)
* → English: autostrada
* → Hungarian: autósztráda
* → Latvian: autostrāde
* → Lithuanian: autostrada
* → Macedonian: автостра́да (avtostráda)
* → Polish: autostrada
* → Romanian: autostradă
* → Russian: автостра́да (avtostráda)
* → Serbo-Croatian: а̀утостра̄да
* → Slovak: autostráda
* → Swedish: autostrada
* → Ukrainian: автостра́да (avtostráda)

### Further reading

* autostrada in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

## Lithuanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Italian autostrada.

### Noun

autostradà f (plural autostrãdos) stress pattern 2
* highway
    Synonyms: magistralė, (most common) greitkelis

#### Declension
### References

* “autostrada”, in Lietuvių kalbos žodynas [Dictionary of the Lithuanian language], lkz.lt, 1941–2025
* “autostrada”, in Dabartinės lietuvių kalbos žodynas [Dictionary of contemporary Lithuanian], ekalba.lt, 1954–2025

## Polish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Italian autostrada.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /aw.tɔˈstra.da/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ada
* Syllabification: au‧to‧stra‧da

### Noun

autostrada f (related adjective autostradowy)
* motorway, freeway, expressway, controlled-access highway (type of highway that has been designed for high-speed vehicular traffic, with all traffic flow—ingress and egress—regulated)

#### Declension
### Further reading

* autostrada in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
* autostrada in Polish dictionaries at PWN
* autostrada in PWN's encyclopedia

## Serbo-Croatian
### Etymology

auto- + Italian strada (“road”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ǎutostraːda/
* Hyphenation: a‧u‧to‧stra‧da

### Noun

àutostrāda f (Cyrillic spelling а̀утостра̄да)
* highway
    Synonyms: autocesta, autoput

#### Declension
## Swedish
### Noun

autostrada c
* an autostrada, a motorway
    Vid provkörningar har det dock visat sig att vagnen på autostradorna lätt kommer upp i 110 km.In test runs it has, however, been shown that the vehicle [the 1939 Volkswagen] on the autostradas easily reaches 110 km [per hour].

#### Declension

| | | nominative | genitive |
| singular | indefinite | autostrada | autostradas |
| singular | definite | autostradan | autostradans |
| plural | indefinite | autostrador | autostradors |
| plural | definite | autostradorna | autostradornas |

#### Synonyms

* motorväg

### References

* autostrada in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)